{"product_id":"historical-understanding-in-the-thought-of-wilhelm-dilthey-9781487580889","title":"Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher who has influenced twentieth-century intellectual history via such thinkers as Heidegger, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset, and Max Scheler, is subjected to careful analysis in this book. What emerges is a reinterpretation of his theory of understanding (Verstehen) and historical knowledge. \u003cbr\u003eThe concept of understanding for which Dilthey became famous was developed only after 1900, in the third and final phase of his career, but it was an approach to the problem or set of problems that had preoccupied him throughout his entire intellectual career. To delineate this doctrine and its place in Dilthey's thinking on history, the author discusses Dilthey's early views on history as a science, his efforts to divide the various sciences into two major types, and his attempt to develop a psychology that would serve as a foundation for the Geisteswissenschaften. The decisive shift in Dilthey's post-1900 thought came when he began to look beyond psychology t","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187730473303,"sku":"9781487580889","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/historical-understanding-in-the-thought-of-wilhelm-dilthey-9781487580889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}